Petra – March 13-15, 2009

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Friends:

Rita and I condensed several hundred pictures from two digital cameras into this Snapfish album of 92 photos. Some are included in the narrative below.

Some background:

Petra is located in present day Jordan and may be best known as the place where Indiana Jones (in his “Last Crusade”) and his father (played by Sean Connery) ride horseback through a narrow gorge which opens into a dramatic view of the rose-colored Treasury carved into the mountainside. Our personal interest in the trip came more from several friends who had visited and encouraged us to go.

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Galapagos – 2007

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From January 26 to February 6, 2007, we joined our friends Diana and Larry Brewer for a cruise of the Galapagos Islands.

I tried to reduce our 347 pics on Snapfish to 30 or so, but without success.  So, the people getting this are stuck with 74.  It is easy to get photos in the Galapagos because the animals have few predators and are unconcerned with any humans walking around. The camera clicks and whines are lost among the whistles and calls of the birds.

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